Newsbreak/Sign-Off - KWTX-TV10 Waco, Texas - July 15, 1984 (60FPS) · 4:04am Nov 11th, 2018
Anchorman David Porter gives a summary of the day's news, weather and sports stories, then turns us over to the 1980s version of the "High Flight" poem reading. When that's done, the sign-off is cued, listing network affiliation and STL stations, but not the owner (Texoma Broadcasting; channel 10 is now owned by Gray Television). A videotaped SSB follows, which is a (presumably) local production. Some of the color bars that follow offer descriptions of the various relay stations used by KWTX-TV and sister station KBTX-TV in Bryan.
KWTX-TV signed on the air as an independent April 3, 1955. In the fall of that year, KWTX merged with experimental UHF station KANG-TV (channel 34), and assumed that station's affiliations with ABC and CBS; channel 10 has been exclusively with CBS since 1983. Also in 1955, it practically invented courtroom television with its airing of Harry L. Washburn's murder trial; the legal community heaped praise on channel 10 for the coverage. Its cameramen James Peeler and Dan Mulloney, along with reporter John McLemore, also had a role to play in the 1993 raid of the Mount Carmel Center near Waco, which was a compound that belonged to David Koresh and his Branch Davidians. Earlier this year, the raid was dramatized in a miniseries that aired on Paramount Network.
